[He knows in some cultures, very likely Grievous's, that this is a distinction with a difference. Being directly and immediately killed while still actively fighting, or…]
I lasted until it was over. I would have succumbed to injuries sustained in combat if not finished off by orbital attack.
[Aware that disclosing this is probably relinquishing advantage. It's far less a warrior's death. He's not sure if Grievous's mindset would prefer Cassian found a way to finish it himself on an enemy's weapon rather than "outlast" and die in a way that would have been the same were he a civilian. It's not unlikely. Still, for multiple reasons right now, he'll stick with truth.]
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I lasted until it was over. I would have succumbed to injuries sustained in combat if not finished off by orbital attack.
[Aware that disclosing this is probably relinquishing advantage. It's far less a warrior's death. He's not sure if Grievous's mindset would prefer Cassian found a way to finish it himself on an enemy's weapon rather than "outlast" and die in a way that would have been the same were he a civilian. It's not unlikely. Still, for multiple reasons right now, he'll stick with truth.]